Green Fork Farmers Market:  Weekly product list

Dear Green Fork Farmers Market Customers:

Available this week:

Vegetables— Arugula, spinach, swiss chard, kale, beet greens, red mustard greens, green onions, lettuce, pac choi, and radishes.

Herbs—Cilantro and mixed herb bunches.

Eggs—Pastured, free range chicken and duck eggs.

Meat—Pastured beef, chicken, goat and lamb.

Fermented foods—Sauerkraut, okra, and jalapenos.

Salsa—Made with locally grown and organic ingredients.

Olives and Olive Oil—organic and directly from the grower in California.

Plants—herbal, medicinal, and pollinator plants ready to plant in your garden.

Place your order from now until Tuesday at noon for pickup on Wednesday from 4-7 pm at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.

If you aren’t able to place an order, stop by to shop with us on Wednesday. We will have a variety of items for sale from the table.

See you on Wednesday,

Green Fork Farmers Market
Wednesdays 4-7 pm
Indoors, Year Round
Inside Nightbird Books
205 W. Dickson St.
Fayetteville, AR

To place your order, click on the link below to enter the website. Sign in as a customer, then click on the icon next to each product you wish to order. Proceed to checkout, review the list to make sure it’s correct, then scroll to the bottom and click on Place This Order. Make sure you receive a confirmation email—-if you don’t, your order was not processed. Payment is at the market pickup with cash, check, debit/credit card, EBT, and Senior FMNP coupons. Ask about our doubling program for EBT and SFMNP!

Duette, FL:  New this week - Baby Red Potatoes and Sweet Onions

Fresh locally grown baby red tomatoes and sweet onions are added this week. Soon the squash and cucumbers will be ready. Please place your orders.

Thank you,
David and Betty
Duette Locally Grown

The Wednesday Market:  The Market is Open!

Good afternoon.

The Wednesday Market is open for orders. Please place your order by 10 p.m. Monday. Orders are ready for pick up between 3 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. See the website for all of this week’s product offerings. Here is the link: http://wednesdaymarket.locallygrown.net/market

Is it just me, or is time speeding by? It seems only yesterday that the calendar turned over to January, and now it is April!

Spring is planting season. Whenever I think about vegetable gardening, I can’t help but remember my grandparents: Grandma and Grandpa Dean and Mamaw and Papaw Pickelsimer, all of whom lived in Fannin County, Georgia. Grandma’s garden had tomatoes, asparagus, and potatoes. Papaw’s garden had squash and green beans. And, although I can’t remember whose garden they came from, we had corn and okra, too. All of them were fabulous gardeners, probably more from necessity than by choice, but when they had more produce than they needed or wanted for themselves, friends and neighbors were bestowed with the extras.

Oh, the meals we consumed at their tables! Fried squash, fried okra, sliced tomatoes, green beans, mashed potatoes, cornbread, and biscuits were regular fare in both households. The food was not fancy, but it sure was fresh and bounteous, and tasted so good, especially when we washed it all down with milk from Papaw’s cows.

Even as they aged, Mamaw and Papaw continued to plant sizable gardens, and when we were teenagers, my sister Sharon and I would be sent to North Georgia to help them “put up” the garden. Mamaw’s specialty was canning green beans. Lord have mercy, one summer we processed so many green beans that our fingers were calloused from all the work of stringing and snapping! At the time, I didn’t think I ever wanted to eat green beans again.

Thankfully, my parents have continued the planting tradition. Mama and Daddy planted last week. Soon our favorite white half-runner green beans, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and peppers will be blooming. And, with any luck, this summer Mama and I will be in the kitchen, “putting up” vegetables, just like the old folks taught us. Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa and Mamaw and Papaw, for teaching us to grow our own food.

And, thank you to our farmers at The Wednesday Market. We look forward to a bounteous harvest this summer! We will see you on Wednesday.

Thanks,

Beverly

Paris Arkansas Farmers Market:  Spring Bounty Online!!

Hello PAFM family….

Just a friendly reminder to get those orders in today before 10pm!!

We have so many great items from meat to jelly, bread to art! Come on by, go local and support your neighborhood farmers, artists, makers and bakers!

www.parisarkansas.locallygrown.net

PAFM

Russellville Community Market:  Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Russellville Community Market:  Opening Bell

Hey everyone, and welcome to a new market week!

Be sure to check out the newly listed items this week! Lots of great, local products to be had!

Happy shopping! Eat Local!

Check out the “Featured Items” section as well as the “What’s New” section at the top of the market page for all the latest products available.

Be sure to “Like” our Facebook page for updates and food-related events in your community!

To ensure your order is placed, make sure you click the “Place My Order” button once you have completed your shopping. Remember, you have until 10:00pm Tuesday evening to place your orders.

Happy Shopping! See you on Thursday!

Russellville Community Market

FRESH.LOCAL.ONLINE.

Suwanee Whole Life Co-op:  Reminder: Place your co-op before 6pm today!

Just a friendly reminder that market orders are due online today by 6 pm.

Please remember that we need to hit certain minimums in order for our farmers and vendors to deliver to us. Due to Spring Break some farmer/vendor orders are low and we will contact you if the minimum has not been met.

Thank you for placing your order and supporting local farms and businesses!

See you on Tuesday!

Click Here to Place Your Order

Siloam Springs, AR:  Online Market is Open!

I’m counting the days until outdoor market opens! Tuesday, April 26th is Opening Day 3-7 pm and our first Saturday is April 30th, 8 am to 1 pm.

Enjoy this beautiful day!

CLG:  Opening Bell: Bread, Spinach, PLANTS, Jellies!

Good afternoon!
It’s time to plant!!! To see what PLANTS are available now, just type PLANT in the search field on the main market page. You’ll also find more beef options from Ratchford Farms.

From Tammy Sue: We have our spring open house next Saturday. It runs from 10-2. Folks can come see what we do, visit our baby chicks and bottle fed baby goats. Looks like beautiful weather! I’m looking at the calendar and there is also a possibility of live births that weekend! The address is 4 Cheyenne Tr, Sherwood, AR, 72120.

From The Locals: This Thursday is ARKANSAS GIVES, from 8am until 8pm. Check out this link: https://www.arkansasgives.org/organizations/the-locals

Usually our volunteers have the market ready for customers to pick up before 4pm. If you are out and about and want to know if we are ready, just text me to see: 501-339-1039

Check out almost 500 wonderful items listed right now. Have a great week!

See you on Friday!

Come early on Friday for the best selection from the EXTRAS table. And save your eggshells throughout the week for the laying hens! :-)

The market is now OPEN for orders. Please check your email about 5 minutes after you place your order to make sure you get an order confirmation. Thank you for being a valuable part of CLG!

Have a great week!
Steve

ONLINE PAYMENT OPTION. When you are done shopping, just hit the “proceed to checkout” button in your cart. You will then see the option to “Pay Now” with credit card near the bottom. Just follow the prompts to add your card. Be sure to read the screen until you see “Thank you for your order” on the top. If you need help, please call 339-7958. A 3% online payment convenience fee will be added when your card is charged.

How to contact us:

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead…

Phone or text: Steve – 501-339-1039

Email: Steve – [email protected]

Stones River Market:  Weblog Entry

Market News

Beautiful morning to you all!

Thank you for making Stones River Market a part of your weekly grocery (and more) shopping needs!

We want to say a huge thank you to L & L Contractors for providing us with the beautiful space to hold market pickup! PLEASE check out their website and support these local craftsfolk in kind turn for them supporting us!
http://www.landlcontractorsmurfreesboro.com/

Alfresco Pasta and Seeds of Success are both on vacation this week and will return next week!

Double Star Bar Farms is hosting a wonderful, family Spring Festival. Here is the flyer info. Contact Maura White, [email protected], with any additional comments or questions:

April 30th is our SPRING FESTIVAL here at Double Star Bar Farms! Come visit the farm! Bring the family, listen to a couple of lectures, learn a couple things, hike, eat, listen to live music, and take a deep breath of fresh country air!! You can even bring your own camping gear and camp overnight!

Lectures include learning to inoculate logs to grow your own mushrooms, how to make your own mozzarella cheese, learn about herbs, and a fun lecture from the funny and expert egg lady!!

See what is growing. Ask questions about getting started farming. Tour the greenhouse. Walk among the beautiful peach trees. See how asparagus grows.

Even though International Homesteading Education Month, sponsored by Mother Earth News Magazine and Grit Magazine, is usually held in September, we decided to hold ours in the spring this year so that people could see what’s growing and what to be on the lookout for as we transition into summer.

Come out and visit and see what is growing!!

SweetPea has added a few more plant starts to the growing list.

Dogwood Valley has added a blackberry jam: “This jam is made from blackberries gathered on my own farm. It has been strained a bit, but still has most of the seeds for texture. Chemical-free, but not certified organic because of prohibitive charges associated with this certification. Ingredients are sugar, blackberries, and Sure-Jell.”

White City Produce has tomatoes! Frontier Family Farms continues to provide us with wonderful broccoli.

There are many listings to choose from for eggs, meat, milk, skin care, animal food and treats along with spring plantings.

Now the fun stuff! GIVEAWAY For each person ordering this week, you will be entered into a drawing for a $10 Stones River Market Gift Certificate for yourself AND one to give to someone else who is not a current customer!
Good luck!

Have a beautiful day market family and we will see you Wednesday!

Ashleigh & Tracey
Market Managers
(931)952-1224
[email protected]

Recipes

Please, share your recipes with us on the Recipes tab. We’d all love to know how you use your Stones River Market products, so we can try it too!

I am taking a break from recipes. Look for them to return soon.